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| | Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Acrimonious aristocrats agree to 'amicable' divorce |
 | | Michael Fergus Bowes Lyon, 47, the 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and great-nephew of the Queen Mother, had been expected to face his estranged wife, Isobel Charlotte, 41, the Countess of Strathmore, in an Edinburgh courtroom yesterday, in a legal contest to end their 20-year marriage. |
 | | The earl, a former president of the Boy’s Brigade who was Page of Honour to the Queen Mother at her marriage to the future King George VI, is believed to be staying on the family’s estate at Holwick in County Durham. |
 | | Lady Strathmore claimed a £5 million payment and sought an order which would oblige the earl to allow her to occupy Glamis Castle, or at least part of it, until 2016, when the youngest of their sons would be 25. |
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